13-letter words containing c, a, t, e, r, i
- practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- practice exam — an informal examination taken as a preparation for an actual or formal examination
- practice game — any informal game (of sports, chess, etc) played as preparation for a real game
- praecipitatio — Meteorology. precipitation from a cloud that reaches the surface of the earth (distinguished from virga).
- pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
- pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- pre-eclamptic — a woman suffering from pre-eclampsia
- pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- pre-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
- preantiseptic — (especially of surgery) noting that period of time before the adoption of the principles of antisepsis (about 1867).
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- precapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
- precipitately — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- precipitating — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- precipitation — the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
- precipitative — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- preexcitation — the act of exciting.
- prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
- prejudicative — tending to prejudge
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- prevaricative — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- price bracket — a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreational — having the potential to procreate
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- proleptically — anticipatorily
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher